On Design:
Landscape Preservation

By

Mac Griswold

Updated Nov. 11, 1999 12:49 a.m. ET

New York

C ity Hall steps aren't the only disputed area in downtown Manhattan. Mayor Rudolph Giuliani irked nearly everybody in town by closing that traditional venue for protest gatherings to the general public. But his $30 million remake of City Hall Park is also causing sparks to fly in the landscape preservation community.

An old fountain designed by the landscape architect, Jacob Wrey Mould, that marked the terminus of...